Where Is the Weapons Story?(Brent Bozell)

The Washington Times ^ | July 1, 2006 | L. Brent Bozell III

[Pontiac]

The largest remaining mystery is why Team Bush seems allergic to releasing more information on the missing weapons in Iraq, and more facts out of the archives of Saddam's heinous regime

IMO they stay silent because a detailed inspection of these weapons would reveal that some of our “allies” (Germany, France & Russia) were instrumental in the development and manufacture of Iraq’s WMD.

You may remember that this was true of Saddam’s artillery (ex. Super gun)

Bush and company do not want to rock the boat of our rickety coalition.

[Tex-Con-Man]

The Bush administration was keeping this information top secret hoping that someone would leak it to the New York Times...maybe then the story would be front page news.

[Bob]

Colmes is as smart as he is good looking.

Sorry, I have to disagree -- he's not even that smart.

[CyberAnt]

The point isn't to change Alan's mind - the point is TO LET HIM KNOW we're paying attention. The dems like to believe we're too stupid to know what's going on. Sending Alan emails disproves that myth!

[9999lakes]

Arguing {discussion} with the Left is not even close to meaningful or useful. They are so full of lies that debate serves no purpose.

Except for the fact that they are usually not violent, they are as dangerous to society as any islamofacist terrorists. The non-violent part is important. Otherwise it would be just as appropriate to War against them as against bin Ladin.

As it is, cooperation is wrong, and the only realistic strategy is total defeat. Terms and working together can come only after surrender.

[SeafoodGumbo]

Thanks for that link. I had forgotten about all of the TONS of uranium we had found over there, quickly put in a corner of the attic by the MSM.

Here's another link to when we found sarin and mustard gas shells in Iraq, also ignored by the MSM.

BTW, are you in Noo Awhlunz, judging by your nic?

[Gritty]

[maine-iac7]

"old and non-lethal", the naysayers like Alan Colmes wouldn't mind if we stored the 500 cannisters of WDM in their garage.

I think they should be delivered to the desks of our congress-critters and senators for them to ponder and decide whether they are lethal or not - a little hands-on exercise

[joesbucks]

Finally, a great analysis of this whole ordeal.

[SaltyJoe]

Recall how unmoved the media was when President Nixon found peace with honor?

Thank God President Bush knows enough to not use his presidency to please the media. But then again, thank God that the media is deflated of its former power and influence!

[Democratshavenobrains]

I don't think any politician is honest, so I guess I am on the side of the lefties.

[Seadog Bytes]

RE: "The Bush administration was keeping this information top secret hoping that someone would leak it to the New York Times...maybe then the story would be front page news."

...LOL. ...Nicely done!

[driftless]

"Colmes...in his garage"

Ha, ha, you got that one right. Apparently the libs are declaring that chem wmds have use-by dates on them. We'd like to test that assertion on them with the libs as willing accomplices. I'm sure that will happen (smirk). With this recent wmd announcement and the Hussein documents disclosures, two main pillars of the leftist assault on the validity of the war have been destroyed: to wit, there were no wmds, and Hussein had no connection to Al-Qaeda.

Now what is the left to do? Dodge, evade, equivocate, ignore, and as always move the goalposts.

[pray4liberty]

Colmes is as smart as he is good looking.

To be fair to Alan, he is much more fair than most liberals.

[pawdoggie]

I will get flamed for this but... no one in 2002 and 2003 argued that we should go to war because Iraq had 500, a 1000, chemical artillery shells. The argument was that Iraq was producing and creating delivery systems for a variety of lethal chemical and biological agents...

Certainly you are correct in your assessment of why the Bush Administration hasn't trumpeted the discovery of chemical munitions or the CBNRE (chemical, biological, nuclear, explosive) research labs and/or stockpiles. This also accounts for the "these are not the WMDs we expected to find in Iraq" response from DoD regarding the 500 gas-filled rockets. Clearly Rumsfeld, Powell and Cheney expected to find entire manufacturing complexes, and bunkers stacked high with newly manufactured gas and germ weapons (those that hadn't already been fired at our troops in the first phase of Operation Iraqi Freedom). The recent PBS production, "The Dark Side" suggests that Cheney, Rumsfeld and Powell all believed that they had been "hornswoggled" by DCI Tenet and the CIA, and they may even have thought that their candor in acknowledging that the WMDs which were, in fact, found in Iraq were "not the WMDs we were after" would deflect press criticism on to (Clinton-appointee) Tenet and CIA (where the lion's share of the blame for that "intelligence failure" clearly belonged). Little did anyone in the Executive Branch realize that the notoriously inept CIA and their associates: Tenet, Clarke, Scheuer, Joe and Val Wilson would be transformed into the "heroes" and "whistleblowers", while the intelligence consumers they had so poorly served would become the "villains" in the drive-by media.